The study said swarms of independent citizens groups can prove far more effective than hierarchical movements when combating established institutions because they can't easily be "decapitated".
As a non-hierarchical movement, Occupy is inextricably a joint endeavour.
How does a non-hierarchical movement avoid arguing itself into oblivion?
It is distressing to see female corporate leaders like the top executives of Yahoo and Facebook ignore the real need for organizations to shift from a "fitting in" model of hierarchical upward movement to an "organizational fit" model.
"This is not a hierarchical, homogenous movement.
Within this briefly ubiquitous mechanistic image lay an unacknowledged assurance about how hierarchical structures of movement and repetition sustained the material world, just as these things were being invoked to secure London's position across a range of scales from the local urban neighbourhood to the post-war Commonwealth.
A young man with a knit hat, who was dubbed "the voice of people who are in the dark about what's happening," decried the movement's hierarchical tendencies.
Stimulus-driven behaviours provide intuitive examples of active inference at work, but endogenous and complicated sequences of motor behaviour emerge naturally from priors in hierarchical generative models of movement trajectories.
However, if we fetishise "competitive school sport" we hark back ideologically and nostalgically to empire, a movement culture of hierarchical male leadership, and to what Professor Fred Coalter of the University of Stirling calls the mythopoeic nature of sport.
Of particular importance were features that allowed us to replace parts of our algorithm that scaled as the number of cores, such as quiescence detection for particle movement and the hierarchical load balancer.
5Flexible work practices include movement away from hierarchical management structures e.g. through improving workers' input into managerial decisions, workers' coordination through occupational lines, etc. (see Gittleman et al. 1998).
